I’ve always thought everyone agreed language was a lossy but useful method of compression for sharing inner concepts and ideas. That my conscious thoughts are “in a language” doesn’t mean my reasoning and entire being interacts with the world using language.

I’m only “thinking in language” when I’m practicing compressing my intent into a shareable format. I don’t think about the majority of highly complex interactions I have with the physical world throughout the day.

As a child did you need to be able to explain in language how the physics of a swing works to be able to use it? Did other kids have to explain it to you in detailed language for you to pick up on how to move your body to do complex tasks?

No. In fact exactly because our compression and decompression of language is even more limited as children, we rely more heavily on raw observation and mimicry of actions occurring in reality itself.

The very idea that a language model can recreate everything we do from the lossy and compressed languages we use to share limited descriptions of much more complex intentions and actions is fundamentally flawed and oversimplified.